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May 19, 2026
A concrete services company lost its challenge Tuesday to the way the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries classified its employees, with a state appeals court holding that L&I properly classified the workers as construction site surveyors who were owed higher wages.
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May 19, 2026
Organizations behind Wimbledon and the French Open asked a New York federal court to reject a player group's claims that they're denying it access to the tournaments in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit, arguing that no jurisdiction exists to grant any relief.
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May 19, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge on Tuesday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction against a food manufacturer, ruling that board prosecutors failed to show that employees working at the company would face irreparable harm without an order halting the company's labor law violations.
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May 19, 2026
A group of labor law professors have urged a New York federal court to side with New York City in a lawsuit challenging a city law that sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for private security guard employers, arguing that the law is not preempted by federal labor law.
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May 19, 2026
Employers remain hesitant to hold mandatory anti-union meetings during organizing campaigns despite questions about whether state or federal bans on what are commonly known as captive audience meetings would ultimately be enforced against them.
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May 19, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. told a New York federal judge Tuesday that it stands by its denial of a union pension fund's second application for a bailout, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a Second Circuit ruling ordering the agency to reassess the request.
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May 19, 2026
A Service Employees International Union local is refusing to let an arbitrator decide whether it violated a collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents the local's employees by extending a worker's probationary period by 180 days, the union said, asking a California federal judge to compel arbitration.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge threw out a Bay Area Toyota dealership's bid to overturn an arbitration award requiring the dealership to increase its paid sick leave days for Teamsters-represented employees, ruling that the dealership failed to state a basis for its request.
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May 18, 2026
John Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia serving time for corruption convictions, told a federal judge on Monday that he needed to be let out of prison because only he could provide the care his disabled wife needs to survive.
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May 18, 2026
The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract.
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May 18, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge on Monday accepted over the Teamsters' objections a deal to end a joint employer case against Amazon without an admission that it jointly employed unionized contract drivers.
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May 18, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor has urged the board to find that a Pennsylvania television station violated federal labor law when it terminated COVID-19-related benefits for employees, arguing the station was required to bargain with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists first.
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May 18, 2026
Amazon appeared likely Monday to lose its challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on mandatory anti-union meetings after an Eleventh Circuit panel doubted the company's standing to fight the policy, which the board announced but did not apply in a decision involving the company.
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May 18, 2026
An Office and Professional Employees International Union unit has urged the NLRB to reverse part of an agency judge's ruling finding that a Michigan hospital unilaterally hired temporary registered nurses to replace workers in the bargaining unit, arguing that the judge erred by determining that claims regarding the use of the nurses before April 2022 are time-barred.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge permanently blocked the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting a social services platform, saying agency officials' job protections are unconstitutional and inseparable from federal law, and that the board's pursuit of novel remedies flouts its targets' jury rights.
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May 15, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a disability discrimination suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Friday refused to rethink a panel's earlier decision that revived two proposed class actions against cereal giant Kellogg and transportation company FedEx in which retirees allege that their pension payments were lowballed due to outdated mortality tables used in conversions.
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May 15, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has vetoed legislation that would have expanded collective bargaining rights for public employees in the state, drawing condemnations from unions that had pushed the changes as critical improvements for labor rights in the commonwealth.
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May 15, 2026
An Alaska federal judge won't hold a cargo airline and union in contempt for refusing to schedule an arbitration hearing on behalf of a pilot who the judge ruled was owed one, but she will sanction them if they don't schedule it within six months, she said.
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May 15, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has ordered the National Labor Relations Board to rethink a ruling that Starbucks unfairly fired a union backer who sent profane messages and opened its mail, saying the board did not grapple with evidence showing his "extreme" words were an outlier in a workplace that tolerated some profanity.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to revive a worker's suit claiming a heavy machinery dealer fired him for seeking leave to manage his mental health and that his union failed to challenge his termination, ruling he lacked evidence that prejudice informed his firing rather than his performance issues.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is close to ending its annual collection of workplace demographic data now that a proposed rule that would rescind employers' reporting requirements has been sent to the White House for approval.
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May 15, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a former New York City teacher's lawsuit claiming she was fired and blacklisted from future work after she refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 due to religious objections.
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May 14, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge correctly awarded a win to a Laborers local in a case that accused the union of mismanaging its Las Vegas hiring hall, the board ruled, rejecting a request by two former union members to overturn the judge's decision.